I was looking at the New Article Boost list, and I saw an article I had wrote (How to Read Aloud) in the list. Doesn’t that mean *I* could give my article a Rising Star? … that doesn’t seem quite fair. Are NABers actually supposed to be able to boost their articles (or is this some random bug), and if they are, why?
I’ve clicked on it, and it doesn’t look like there’s any way I couldn’t click on the Rising Star box and then “Mark as patrolled”.
Lojjik
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i don’t really see it as any different than admins being able to protect their own userpage…?
Ttrimm
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I know I can boost my own articles, but I am an admin. I don’t boost them because I am human and hope to get rising stars. For that reason, I leave them there and hope others see them as RSs.
Maniac
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I don’t really think NABbers should boost their own articles but I don’t see an issue with that being enabled (thus requiring a fix) either. As a booster, all articles you create should really be without immediate issues that need fixed in NAB. In other words, if you’re a booster and you’ve created an article, it should be ready to go and not need any fixes in NAB regardless of who is boosting your article. If a booster creates a terrible article with spelling issues, formatting issues, lack of content, etc. and then pushes it through NAB themselves then that’s a different issue…but if that’s the case they probably shouldn’t be a booster anymore either
Just my personal opinion there though.
system
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Where’s the fun in “New Article Boost” when you boost your own articles?
Well, when admins protect their userpage, it’s not really doing that much for them - it’s protecting from vandalism, but it’s not like having a protected userpage is an *award*. But Rising Stars are
awards - if I decided to boost my article, then I could give myself a RS regardless of quality, which wouldn’t be fair.
That’s what I did, too, but the advantage to get an RS is still there… (oh, and thanks for the Rising Star!)
Why I’m bringing this up is because any NABer - let’s say “Penny” - could award his or herself a RS. So if Penny has a good grasp on policies but isn’t very good at writing articles, she could take advantage and give a RS to a less-than-RS-worthy article she wrote.
Lol, true.
Maniac
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Ah, yeah, I understand now… well, Penny could also give a RS to a terrible article she pushed through NAB that isn’t hers, too. I see the issue but I guess my thought is that if someone takes it upon themselves to do this, hopefully they’d be caught and then they shouldn’t be a NABber anymore. For that matter, an issue like this would hopefully be caught through other not-so-good actions the person takes prior to the user becoming a NABber…
Lojjik
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I don’t give my own articles RS’s and I’m sure that holds true for all other NABbers… yet people are allowed to self-nom FAs (which I also disagree with). Adding on to what Maniac said, I think anyone who does this should probably not be entitled to the ability to select Rising Stars. SK
system
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100% agree. Self “promotion” articles in a Rising Star or FAC way is kind of (selfish)? There’s lots of ways to self promote, whether you share it with friends/family, use social networking, share it on other websites, etc… but to tag it in a “higher level” yourself, comes off as if it’s the best content - but in other people’s minds, this might not be true. I have never FAC/RS’ed my own articles - yet, I’ve had my share of articles actually being featured – and many comments about “Does wikiHow really need this crap?!” afterwards. But hey… that’s just life.
Writelf
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Seconded. I’ll never give my own article a Rising Star. Hey, I even skip articles that I have heavily contributed to before boost in NAB. Yet, I have seen that a NABer gave their own article a RS and I also thought it was a little… vain (?).
I agree that giving yourself a Rising Star isn’t OK, but I want to point out that NABers have an unfair advantage for getting RS (by awarding one to themselves).
I’ve seen my articles on NAB, but I never Boost them, because obviously I can’t do much to improve the article that I’ve just written. As for giving myself a Rising Star award, I have to admit that for a fleeting second, I thought about it. Then I realized that doing that would be stupid. Awarding yourself with an RS would be totally pointless for me. The sense of pride I get when I’m awarded with an RS would be totally gone, because I wouldn’t be totally sure if I’d earned it or not. For me, I think that that’s what a Rising Star is really about - it’s not the amount of green pixels in a star shape that you have beside the names of your articles, it’s the sense of pride in knowing that someone else in the wikiHow community thinks that your article is well-written and deserves to be recognized. So in short, I’ve never boosted my own articles or given them Rising Stars. I just leave them alone and move on to the next article.
I don’t think you’d be able to boost it, even if you saw it on the list. (someone correct me if I’m wrong)
